Examples Of Justice In The Crucible

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The Pledge of Alliances ends with ¨ liberty and Justice for all”. The Key word in that phrase is justice. Many Individuals all around the world desire justice. Today there are movements that try to achieve justice, such like the Black Lives matter. In human nature, the need for justice is seen is in real life and stories. However, in human nature this desire for justice can be used for a way of revenge. For example in the play, The Crucible, the reader can see a desire for justice for certain characters in the book. The reader can also see how some characters ‘desire for justice’ is really a way for revenge. As seen in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and the Black Lives Matter movement, it is human nature for man to desire justice and revenge. …show more content…

A variety of social right movements today are usually started by an incident or event that provokes a group of individuals. In an article about these incidents it explains how the Black Lives Matter got around and became popular very quickly. The author of ¨Police Brutality¨ explains, “Such incidents have also sparked the rise of the movement Black Lives Matter...From all the incidents of police brutality this caused people to want justice and then the Black Lives matter movement was started.” In The Crucible, the witchcraft cases started a movement to ´cleanse the village´ just as the police brutality incidents sparked the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. This desire for justice shown in The Crucible and Black Lives Matter could also be shown in different …show more content…

In an article called ¨Empathy for Black Lives Matter the writes explains, Each movement is made up of at least three factions: believers, political insiders and instigators. I saw these divides emerge in the Tea Party, where self-serving ''leaders'' -- but really just insiders -- tried to take control of the movement to their own benefit. People are using these justice movements for their own needs. This isn't a desire for justice, this is a desire for themselves. In The Crucible, Characters such as Abigail and John Putnam would accuse people of witchcraft for their advantage and to get revenge on people they despise. Although there are a few people that use movements for their own purposes not all there purposes could be